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We are pleased to offer you the latest issue of Gyroscope Review, a collection of poetry to get you through the rest of the winter. Thirty-eight poets share their sharp, elegant snapshots of wintery landscapes, cozy spaces, important relationships, and those ordinary moments that unexpectedly shift our vision.

We offer both print and Kindle editions available through Amazon HERE.

We also, as always, offer our PDF version right here on our website, available HERE.

Come on back on Groundhog Day for an announcement! We are cooking up plans for both National Poetry Month and our Fourth Anniversary Issue.

In the meantime, submissions for our Spring 2019 (Fourth Anniversary Issue) are now open. Please read our guidelines for more information. Submissions may be sent to us through Submittable until March 15 OR until our spring issue is full.

GR Past & Present

Happy 2019! Gyroscope Review had a good year, and hopes our poets and readers did also. We put out our Third Anniversary Issue in the Spring, with a special category, ‘Planting Ourselves’, and had a another special issue, ‘The Crone Edition’, in the Fall of 2018. We also had three handmade art covers for the year, and hope to do more in the future. We continue to offer Gyroscope Review in PDF format, and as a purchasable print edition or Kindle edition for our reader’s convenience. Your support keeps us going forward.

Our submissions numbers for all 2018 editions were 2966
submissions total, including so many for the Crone Issue that it overwhelmed
our submissions system. We offer weekly poetry prompts through Twitter,
Instagram and Facebook, and love to see the results appear in our slush pile. We
are thankful for the support of all our poets and readers as we move into a new
year, and hope to keep growing and bringing you Fine Contemporary Poetry.

So onwards to 2019. Have you set goals for the upcoming
year? Submissions goals, number of poems written in a week/month/year goals?
Are you wanting to attend a workshop, hone your skills? Maybe put together a
book and get it out there, circulating? Let us know on Facebook what you have
planned for 2019.

There are all sorts of things out there to keep your poetry
production humming along. Join a critique group, it thickens your skin and
teaches perspective. Learn new forms. Work with a partner (or two or three) and
co-write poems. It’s a lot of fun, and the poems take twists and turns you
never expected. Co-writing, I learned how to do an Abecedarian, American
Sentences, Couplets, as well as writing alternating lines, stanzas, and poems
that respond to partner poems.

You political poets out there, keep writing. We need your take on things now more than ever. We don’t know where 2019 is taking us, but I suspect it will be a wild ride. Poetry grounds us, poetry motivates us. Poetry keeps us real. Go forth, create, and share with the world. Gyroscope Review is a place to get your ideas before the public. Online, print, podcast and video, let’s do what poets do best. Raise our voices and be heard.

We are truly pleased to offer a diverse group of poetic voices and hope you find something that lodges itself in your head or your heart. We welcome poets new to us as well as old friends who never fail to make us think. Enjoy this first issue of 2017. Know what else? This is our very first edition that you can purchase in print! It’s available on Amazon here.

We are also pleased to announce that, along with our regular submissions which are now open until March 15, we have a themed call for submissions in honor of our April 2017 second anniversary issue:

“Planting Ourselves” – In the moving, transient world, how do you plant yourself? Do you plant yourself in place or are you a tumbleweed who scatters bits over a wide area? Are your roots shallow or deep? Are you a perennial or an annual? Must you be carried to a new place via a power other than your own? Dig deeply. Unearth your own gems.

The themed call for submissions honors our usual guidelines regarding previous publication and number of submissions, among other things. Please read the complete guidelines before any submissions, themed or regular.

Thank you for being part of the Gyroscope Review community of readers, writers, and poetry-lovers. We wish you all the best in this new year.

We are so proud of our summer 2016 issue of Gyroscope Review. It includes work from 29 poets who reside in six different countries, touches on summery topics as well as current events, dystopian futures, and the relationships that define us all.